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journalists shouldn't be having super soaker fights with joe biden that is you know it is mansion in washington d.c. they should be having journalistic fights where they're demanding answers from the powerful but it's not just investigative journalists like scahill who see this glaring problem even former n.b.c. anchor tom brokaw has acknowledged what a disservice this is doing to the public take a look at what. we present to the rest of the country are we doing there are those of us or are we just a group of narcissus who are mostly interested in elevating our own profiles and what comes through the screen. is the latter not the former but while scahill and brokaw clearly get it the majority of journalists sadly don't and that's the real problem we have all of these elite figures in bed together and each other favors and worst of all completely losing sight of the job the public depends on them to do it's quite obvious that the watchdogs have become nothing more than lap dogs gathering together now not to discuss their role in turning this failed democracy around but instead to cele
journalists shouldn't be having super soaker fights with joe biden that is you know it is mansion in washington d.c. they should be having journalistic fights where they're demanding answers from the powerful but it's not just investigative journalists like scahill who see this glaring problem even former n.b.c. anchor tom brokaw has acknowledged what a disservice this is doing to the public take a look at what. we present to the rest of the country are we doing there are those of us or are we...
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biden's house on the weekends journalist shouldn't be having super soaker fights with joe biden that is you know ed is mansion in washington d.c. they should be having journalistic fights where. demanding answers from the powerful you know and we need a media culture that says we are not friends of those who are reporting and we are people that are going to do our job and that is to provide information that's actionable intelligence for ordinary folks in this country to make decisions on what they think is right and wrong in terms of the policies of the government. and i have to bring in rand paul's filibuster of course as important as the issue was he never once mentioned people who were not americans you know killed in this way i mean how much is thinking in terms of nation states this is genius take nationalism preventing people from caring about these covert wars i mean i think it's unfortunate that it was left to someone like rand paul to be the only person raising the stuff on the senate floor and he entered into the record a tremendous amount of important information he read i
biden's house on the weekends journalist shouldn't be having super soaker fights with joe biden that is you know ed is mansion in washington d.c. they should be having journalistic fights where. demanding answers from the powerful you know and we need a media culture that says we are not friends of those who are reporting and we are people that are going to do our job and that is to provide information that's actionable intelligence for ordinary folks in this country to make decisions on what...
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were already doing understand dick cheney was writing the patriot act ten years before it happened joe biden as well were pending those kinds of civil liberties violations ten years before those events happened so i mean there's always a steady growth of government and people libertarians always say that as government grows liberty recedes so i think what have what has to happen is that we. need to have a culture of self empowerment individual empowerment and a belief in the second amendment which talks about individual liberty in the right to self-defense for ourselves we don't really need a huge supra national government to keep us safe from anything other than perhaps a north korean nuclear missile strike for the most part americans can protect themselves if we are empowered to protect themselves do you think that the pilots were armed in every single cockpit that those that those people would've been able to pull off that kind of attack absolutely not but we were taught to be afraid we were told to stand down if terrorists stood up no don't say anything just given instead we need t
were already doing understand dick cheney was writing the patriot act ten years before it happened joe biden as well were pending those kinds of civil liberties violations ten years before those events happened so i mean there's always a steady growth of government and people libertarians always say that as government grows liberty recedes so i think what have what has to happen is that we. need to have a culture of self empowerment individual empowerment and a belief in the second amendment...